After walking "through" Ingegerd's "signature" waterfall at the front door, guests have a stunning view up and down the river including Memorial Bridge, Kennedy Center, Watergate, Roosevelt Island, and Washington Harbor.
Kari, busy herself commuting across the Atlantic all last year when their daughter Ingrid was still in school in Stockholm, finally moved into the Residence just in time for the long Labor Day weekend. But 15-year old Ingrid and her cousin Ida arrived earlier to attend Washington International School this fall. The girls brought Ninni, the family black lab with them to Washington and that changed everything. “We have two homes and I commute between them,” says Kari, “But the moment Ingrid moved into the Swedish Residence with our family dog, America became more our home base.’”
Their 22-year old Gustav is studying Mathematics and Physics at the University of Uppsala and 19-year old Harald was accepted this fall at the University of Lund to study Bio-medicine. But Kari feels that living apart some of the time has turned out in a very positive way for their family. “The distances give us all an incentive to find occasions when we can spend time together. In some ways, we are a closer knit family than we might have been if we all stayed in different cities in Sweden. Then, when the kids came home to Stockholm for holidays, they’d be out with their old friends.” Now, their boys as well as their girlfriends already have tickets to come for two weeks this Christmas like they all did last year. “The kids, to my joy, very much want to see the family brought together. This is something we win despite our choice to be based in two continents with a big ocean in between.”
